[Apologetics] Re: Pelosi attending Mass

Sun Jan 21 01:28:42 EST 2007

Elizabeth,

This is even WORSE than reported. 

According to the website Operation Vote Smart at
http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=H0222103&type=category&category=Abortion%20Issues

Abortion Issues

2006  Representative Pelosi supported the interests of
the Planned Parenthood 100 percent in 2006.

2006  In 2006 NARAL Pro-Choice America-Endorsements
endorsed Representative Pelosi.

2005-2006  Representative Pelosi supported the
interests of the National Right to Life Committee 0
percent in 2005-2006.

2005  Representative Pelosi supported the interests of
the NARAL Pro-Choice America 100 percent in 2005.

2004  Representative Pelosi supported the interests of
the NARAL Pro-Choice America 100 percent in 2004.

2003-2004  Representative Pelosi supported the
interests of the National Right to Life Committee 0
percent in 2003-2004.

2003-2004  Representative Pelosi supported the
interests of the Democrats for Life of America 0
percent in 2003-2004.

2003  Representative Pelosi supported the interests of
the NARAL Pro-Choice America 100 percent in 2003.

2002  Representative Pelosi supported the interests of
the Planned Parenthood 100 percent in 2002.

2001-2002  Representative Pelosi supported the
interests of the National Right to Life Committee 0
percent in 2001-2002.

2001  Representative Pelosi supported the interests of
the Planned Parenthood 100 percent in 2001.

2001  Representative Pelosi supported the interests of
the NARAL Pro-Choice America 100 percent in 2001.

2000  Representative Pelosi supported the interests of
the NARAL Pro-Choice America 100 percent in 2000.

1999-2000  Representative Pelosi supported the
interests of the National Right to Life Committee 0
percent in 1999-2000.

1999  Representative Pelosi supported the interests of
the Planned Parenthood 100 percent in 1999.

1995-2004  On the votes that the National Family
Planning & Reproductive Health Assocation considered
to be the most important in 1995-2004, Representative
Pelosi voted their preferred position 100 percent of
the time.

1995-2003  Representative Pelosi supported the
interests of the Planned Parenthood (House) 100
percent in 1995-2003.

This is VERY depressing.

The only thing that I think of is tha Bishop Wuerl
intends to handle this matter quietly behind the
scenes. Perhaps he intends to have a talk with her,
rather than going public with it. 

He may very well tell her that he will make public
statements on this matter if she continues to call
herself a Catholic while voting 100% pro-abortion.

But perhaps he is going to give her a chance to mend
her ways. We will see.

Art

--- ELIZABETH ROHN-NELSON <e_rohnnelson at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Sister Emma Rohn, my sister-in-law, sent this
> article from New York.
>    
>                 LifeSiteNews.com
>   Monday January 8, 2007
> 
>   New D.C. Archbishop Washes Hands Over Nancy Pelosi
>    Political Exploitation of Catholic Mass
>   Spokesman redirects objecters to Trinity
> University where Pelosi attended mass
>     By Peter J. Smith 
> 
> WASHINGTON, January 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) -
> Pro-abortion House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the most
> powerful Catholic in Congress is recasting her image
> as a Italian Catholic mother, despite her stark
> defiance of the Catholic Church’s teachings opposing
> abortion, embryonic stem-cell research, and same-sex
> marriage.
> 
> The Speaker publicized well in advance her visits to
> St. Leo the Great church in Baltimore and attendance
> of a special Mass at Trinity University offered for
> victims of hurricane Katrina and of the Darfur
> genocide, as part of her plan to propel the image of
> a good Roman Catholic mother and grandmother at home
> in the Democratic party.
> 
> “The Catholic Mass also signals something very
> important,” Katherine Hall Jamieson, a liberal
> professor, told the Baltimore Sun. “The Democratic
> Party wants those defecting Catholics who have voted
> for Republicans for a long time but came back to the
> Democratic Party in 2006 to see the Democratic Party
> as home.”
> 
> Pelosi’s much publicized attendance of the Catholic
> Mass at Trinity January 3rd has dismayed pro-life
> advocates looking to recently appointed Archbishop
> Donald Weurl to correct Pelosi’s assertions that she
> is a “conservative Catholic.”
> 
> Judie Brown, president of American Life League, had
> appealed to Archbishop Weurl to use what power and
> influence he could muster to deter Nancy Pelosi from
> making the Mass at Trinity University a political
> spectacle. Brown said it is “unconscionable for Rep.
> Pelosi to call herself a Catholic in good standing
> while supporting the heinous act of abortion.”
> 
> “As a practicing Catholic mother and grandmother, I
> am highly offended that 
>   this woman would use the influence of her new
> office to flaunt her Catholic 
>   label while advocating the brutal murder of
> preborn children without apology”
>    Brown wrote in Human Events. 
> 
> “A thinking person with any sort of moral
> sensibilities would conclude that the 
>   bald-faced contradiction between advocating for
> abortion and heralding one’s attendance at a
> Catholic Mass is simply outrageous and should not be
> 
>   permitted.”
> 
> Susan Gibbs, spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of
> Washington and the
>    Archbishop, told LifeSiteNews.com that the
> Archdiocese had nothing to do 
>   with the event. Gibbs said Archbishop Weurl did
> not interfere since Trinity
>    University was under the jurisdiction of a
> religious order, the Sisters of
>    Notre Dame, not the Archdiocese, and said she was
> redirecting complaints to
>    Trinity. Gibbs did not indicate whether Weurl
> intends to discipline Pelosi for 
>   her public support of abortion, embryonic
> stem-cell research, and same-sex 
>   marriage.
> 
> Pelosi’s Catholic Mother and Grandmother public
> relations ploy may be 
>   working to distract voters from her uncontradicted
> anti-Catholic beliefs. 
>   A Rasmussen Reports national phone survey of 800
> likely voters released
>    Friday show Pelosi's approval rating has jumped
> to 43 percent -- up 19 points
>    from November.
> 
> Pelosi, who has received a 100 percent rating from
> NARAL, a radical 
>   pro-abortion group, vowed to reinstate funding for
> embryonic stem-cell 
>   research in the first 100 hours of the 110th
> Congress.
> 
> To respectfully contact Archbishop Weurl: 
> 
>   The Most Reverend Donald W. Wuerl
> Archdiocese of Washington
> P.O. Box 29260 
> Washington, DC 20017-0260 
> 301-853-4500
> 
> Secretary to the Archbishop: Rev. Carter Griffin,
> 301-853-4500 
> 
> Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia: 
> Most Rev. Kevin J. Farrell, 301-853-4520 
> 
> To contact Trinity University:
> 
> Ann Pauley, Media Relations 
> Trinity, 125 Michigan Avenue NE, 
> Washington, DC 20017
> pauleya at trinitydc.edu 
> (202) 884-9725
> 
> See Judie Brown’s Article in Human Events:
> Pro-Abortion Pelosi Insults Catholic Faith
> http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18732 
> 
> See National Catholic Reporter’s interview with
> Nancy Pelosi discussing life as a “pro-choice
> Catholic” and “conservative Catholic”:
> Roots in faith, family and party guide Pelosi’s move
> to power 
>
http://ncronline.org/mainpage/specialdocuments/Pelosi.htm
> 
> See Previous LifeSite Coverage:
> 
> Will New Archbishop of Washington Deny Pro-Abort
> Nancy Pelosi Communion at Jan. 3 Showcase Mass?
> http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/dec/06122005.html 
> 
> Pro-abortion Dem House Leader Calls Herself a
> “Conservative Catholic”
> http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/nov/02111804.html
> 
> US Bishops Set to Tell Catholics Opposed to Teaching
> on Abortion or Homosexuality not to Receive
> Communion
> http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/oct/06102001.html
> 
> Highest Authorities in Vatican Back Denial of
> Communion to Pro-Abortion Politicians
> http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/jul/04070501.html
> 
> 
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> 
> Elizabeth J. Rohn-Nelson
>   Sun City, AZ 85381
>    
>   God Bless America
> 

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